Biography
Yiyang is a second-year master’s student in the Psychological Sciences Program, working with Prof. Monica Fabiani and Prof. Gabriele Gratton in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab. She is interested in how brain structure and function change in both healthy and pathological aging, and what roles do biological and lifestyle factors (e.g., cerebrovascular health, genetic risk factors, and aerobic fitness) play in aging trajectories. Yiyang has hands-on experience with DTI analyses, manual editing of structural MRI data using FreeSurfer, EEG-based brain-computer interface studies, and machine learning approaches for neuroimaging data.
Research Interests
- Neural mechanisms of brain aging and age-related cognitive decline
- Neuroanatomical pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease
- Neurobiological risk and resilience factors in aging
- Multimodal neuroimaging integration
Recent Publications
Li, Q.1, Liu, Y.1, Deng, Q., Lu, J., & Zhang, B. (In preparation). Network-based epicenter mapping reveals pTau217/Aβ42-defined vulnerability and cognitive relevance in Alzheimer’s disease continuum.
1Co–first authorship.
Zheng, Y., Bo, B., Wang, D., Liu, Y., Gilbert, S. J., Li, Y., & Kwok, S. C. (2025). Microstructural organization of superior longitudinal fasciculus and cingulum bundle support metacognition driven cognitive offloading. Scientific reports, 15, Article 33247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18631-5